YOUNG'S 73.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 10

YOUNG'S 73.

PROVINCIAL GOLF,

The Qualifying Play — Leader Plays First 9 In 34.

Outstanding player on the Titirangi links since the season epened, and twice under the scratch seme of the course, 7-1, ill practice rounds yesterday, J. 11. Young fulfilled expectations this morning when he led the Held in the first of the two qualifying rounds of the Auckland provincial golf championship. He set a hot pace for the players who followed him when he played the first nine holes in 34, and even though he received a setback from

"The Wrecker'' to the fifteenth hole he finished the round in 73.

Season after season there is rarely a better medallist in Auckland than Young, and on his home course lie is handicapped at plus I—the only player in Auckland set to give a stroke to the standard scratch score. It is no false handicap at Titirangi, where maybe the scratch score could be tightened up a stroke, for Young lias

ayed to it several times recently, in addion to this morning. And butf for the pscs at the thirteen!.!], fourteenth and 'tcenth holes he would have done even -tier.

Ill's .3-! out was (lawless: ■!. 4. 5, 3. 4. 4. 2. !. 4—with a siving of birdies at tile fifth, sixth and seventh. At the fifth, the longest hole on [he course, with a following wild, he was pin hi-.'h, but oil' the Sft'ocn. to chip in for his lour. The two at t'liu seventh needed a 10ft putt, lint his work-on the greens was good throughout.

Youuu started home in the munition style with 4. 3, 5. and I!,en hit his drive into the gully at the l'hirteenth and a 0 resulted. At the short fourteenth lie was through the green, ami slipped another stroke. Further trouble was ahead of him and he went from bunker (o bunker at the fifteenth to card a (i. Then came the break that put him in a happy stale again—a 20ft ptilt for 3 at the sixlccm'h. Two d's followed, and lie was home in 30.

The leading scores in the first' qualifying round were: ,T. H. Young 73. W. J Davidge 74. K. V. Can- 74, 11. O. Brinsilen 70. J. M. ('oilman 77. G. C'nlininll 75 C Calloway 78, A. N. Young 78, and A.' V.'.